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How to Create a Study Plan You’ll Actually Stick To
It’s easy to get excited about creating a new study plan. Colour-coded timetables, perfectly balanced subject blocks, and a hopeful mindset that "this time will be different". But often, after a week or two, that shiny plan is abandoned while old habits creep back in. Why does this happen? Because most study plans are too general and focus on what to do, but not how to motivate yourself to do it. A plan without motivation is just a list of good intentions. Here are our Top 8 Tips for creating...
Summer Challenge Achievement Badge
In conjunction with the launch or our new Achievement Badges we also have two challenge badges for students to work towards over the summer break with our December Christmas Badge and our January Summer Badge. To earn these badges, the target is a modest 500-point...
Our virtual coaching offerings are here to stay
Across the globe there is a virtual learning revolution going on with millions of students from Kindergarten through to University completing their learning via Zoom and other similar platforms. While face to face school largely returned to normal fairly quickly for...
The antidote to procrastination, distraction and low engagement
The six million dollar question of how to eliminate procrastination, distraction and low engagement towards HSC success is answered by a simple and easily accessible solution for all students. The antidote to procrastination, distraction and lower levels of...
8 ideas for studying in the ‘post-trials slump’
The 'post-trials slump' is real for the vast majority of HSC students. You have covered all the content, assessment tasks are done, the countdown to graduation is on, the weather is heating up, 18th birthday events every weekend and 50% of your ATAR is still up for...
Live Q&A Support.. Anytime, Anywhere!
Live Q&A Zoom sessions run every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evening from 5pm to 8pm through to the end of the HSC to receive additional one on one support from one of our experts as you need it when working outside of your normal CoWorks session. Join for as...
New Mindset. New Results!
You have everything you need to create your very own HSC Success Story. When we look around at those who are achieving the success which we want for ourselves, it is easy to fall into the trap of attributing those people as having ‘super powers’ i.e. they are smarter,...
Finish your HSC with Zero Regrets!
The future is still to be created by the actions we take today. It is inevitable that ALL students will experience the famous ‘post trials slump’. However, the students who are able to have a controlled and well earned break before resuming their training for the...
The Post Trials Slump
With trials just about finished up for everyone, we wanted to discuss a very common obstacle that students tend to face around this time of year: the post-trials slump. Yes it’s a real thing! After (hopefully) working very hard in the lead-up to trials, and...
Thank you
A huge thank you to everyone who has referred friends and family to commence in October 2020 for HSC 2021. The vast majority of our clients come from word of mouth and we are thrilled that the work we are doing with our students is resonating with so many families. At...
Five Tips For Your Trial Exam Preparation
“The HSC Trials”. A phrase synonymous with the business end of the HSC. For the majority of you this set of important exams will be beginning over the next couple of weeks.
Our Top 6 Tips: Making the Most of the July Break
With less than 40 days remaining until the majority of students commence their trial examinations, here are our top 6 tips…
Block Procrastination and Distraction with Goals
When you have the choice of continuing with more work/training OR succumbing to instant gratification and picking up the phone or watching youtube etc the decision will be much more likely to be consistent with achieving your goals if the goals are up in front...
74 Days Until Trials Begin: What Is Your Plan?
As of today there are 74 days until the Trial Exams begin and in that 74 days there are a lot of competing agendas to take a student’s attention away from training for an exam block that will make up approximately 25% of a students ATAR.
HSC Success Is All in the Mind: Education Today
After appearing on Business Australia’s podcast, ‘The Company You Keep’, our Head Performance Coach and Managing Director, Jesse Gardiner, speaks to Education Today about developing a positive HSC mindset.
Output Matters: Why You Can’t Just ‘Show Up’
It’s easy to confuse just showing up with making progress because you showed up so something must be happening, that’s better than not being here right?
Yes showing up is better than not even showing up at all… but barely.
Michael Jordan and the HSC CoWorks Key Behaviours
22 years after Jordan won his last NBA championship he has maintained universal relevance due to the qualities he displayed as an athlete on the basketball court which we can all relate to as being the same qualities to achieve success on the court of life.
Measured Performance: An Indicator of Future Success
The Measured Performance (‘MP’) is our index for tracking student progress and output at HSC CoWorks.
Who wants a great HSC result? Everyone!
How many people want a fantastic HSC result? Everyone! How many people get a fantastic HSC result? Not everyone. The idea of what constitutes 'fantastic' is going to differ between students, however there is one commonality amongst all students who do achieve that...
If you can’t do the little things right, how can you expect to do the big things well?
Everyone wants to be able to do the big things well but there is very little differentiator between those who can, and those who can't. Those who are able to succeed have had to put in the hard work with all the little things in order to allow them the chance to...
6 Steps to Conquering Mount HSC, Mount Uni & Mount Life
Learning how to learn (and enjoying it!) is an opportunity available to every HSC student. Here are our 6 top tips for getting up your next mountain successfully.
